The City of Austin is scheduled to issue $233 million in bonds to finance its debt and to fund in whole or in part several voter-approved capital projects. The bonds are expected to be scheduled for sale on September 10, 2019 with Ramirez & Co., Inc. as the lead...
Employment Analysis by Metro Area
Economic Indicators Erratic and Uneven Growth among U.S. States
by guest contributor Bradford Langs Now in its seventh year, the U.S. economic recovery (which began in July 2009) has been deemed modest at best. Both gross domestic product (GDP) and job growth remain erratic and uneven overall - particularly among states. Regarding...
Economic Indicators 2014 Year-End Data Reveals Uneven Recovery
The U.S. economic recovery is now almost six years old (June 2009 was the final month of the recession). This recovery has been deemed weak, with both GDP and job growth remaining both erratic and uneven. Unemployment levels have declined to a sub 6% level from a 10%...
Mining the Web: A Closer Look at Long-Term Unemployment
There’s unemployment, and then there’s long-term unemployment. Over one third of the nation’s unemployed workers has been out of work for more than six months, according to the Urban Institute, in a recently released interactive feature entitled, “27 Weeks and...
Top Cities for Job Satisfaction
People who work in the Bay Area tend to report the highest job satisfaction, according to a new report by Glassdoor, an online jobs and career community that offers an inside view of companies. Topping the Glassdoor Employment Satisfaction Report Card are San Jose...
Mining the Web: State and Local Government Workforce Trends
The outlook for state and local government employment appears to be a bit brighter than in recent years, according to a recently released survey by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence and the International Public Management Association for Human...
Despite Notable Improvement, California Metro Areas Still Face Unemployment Challenges
The Golden State is home to the two metro areas posting the greatest decline in unemployment rates among large metro areas in April 2013, compared to a year earlier. The unemployment rate fell by an even two percentage points in both the Riverside-San...
November Employment Update: Is Las Vegas Making a Comeback?
In November 2012, the national unemployment rate was 7.4 percent, down from 8.2 percent a year earlier, according to figures released by the Bureau of Labor of Statistics. By comparison, 217 of the nation’s 372 metro areas posted unemployment rates below the national...
October Employment Update: The Stand-Outs… and All the Rest
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released its Metro Area Employment and Unemployment data for October 2012. The national unemployment rate for October was 7.5% (not seasonally adjusted). Unemployment rates in October were lower in 329 of the nation’s 372...
September Employment Update: Sustained Trends Over Time Paint the Most Accurate Picture
What do Elkhart, Indiana and El Centro, California have in common? Admittedly, not much. Yet these two metro areas posted the largest year-over-year decreases in unemployment rate, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics Metro Area Employment and...